§300j–19c Study on intractable water systems

Summary

The EPA Administrator must, within 2 years after October 23, 2018 (by October 23, 2020), work with the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to finish a study that finds “intractable” small water systems and explains the barriers that stop people served by those systems from getting safe drinking water. The Administrator must also send Congress a report with the study’s findings and recommendations by that same deadline. Intractable water system: a community or noncommunity system serving fewer than 1,000 people that, as of October 23, 2018, was in significant noncompliance or listed for such a history and whose owner/operator can’t or won’t provide safe service, has abandoned it, has defaulted on related debts, or fails to keep facilities safe.